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Using High-resolution Drone Imagery to Prepare TRPA Required Land Capability Site Assessments for Tahoe Key Property Owners Association
The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) limits the amount of impervious surface allowed on individual properties as a best management…Learn More
A Review of Stream Environment Zone Definitions, Field Delineation Criteria and Indicators, Classification Systems, and Mapping
Collaborative Recommendations for Stream Environment Zone Program Updates. (Tahoe SEZ PC093) The Stream Environment Zone (SEZ) is a land designation…Learn More
Compliance Monitoring Services
SIG’s wildlife biologists provided the several Bay Area corporations with contractor training and wetland alteration permit compliance monitoring services.Learn More
Use of Remotely Sensed Imagery to Map and Quantify the Extent and Distribution of Lake Tahoe’s Nearshore Substrates and Fish Habitats
SIG’s Environmental Mapping Team mapped surface and submerged littoral substrates in Lake Tahoe, CA, NV from high-resolution satellite imagery using…Learn More
Waterfowl Habitat Condition Assessment
SIG’s wildlife biologists provided the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) with professional services for their Research and Analysis Division. Namely,…Learn More
Development of a Wildland Fire Resiliency Program for the MidPeninsula Regional Open Space District
SIG is working with Panorama Environmental (https://www.panoramaenv.com/) to develop a Wildland Fire Resiliency Program for the MidPeninsula Regional Open Space…Learn More
Case study for the EU’s new renewable energy directive – wood pellet export from the US to the EU
SIG supports Navigant, an EU based environmental consulting group, in developing a work process to implement the EU’s new renewable…Learn More
Carbon offset development for a fuel switch bioenergy project
Koda Energy is a combined heat and power plant in Wisconsin. It provides process heat to surrounding industries. SIG is…Learn More
Avoided wildfire emissions from fuel treatments along Highway 50 in El Dorado County, California
The Highway 50 corridor in Eldorado County, California, is a crucial landscape feature to reduce the risk of megafires in…Learn More
Forest Carbon Resilience of Eastern Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) Salvage Harvesting in the Northeastern United States
The next major eastern spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) outbreak is likely to begin impacting the forests of the northeastern US…Learn More
Quantification of ecosystem services for Austrian state forests: Carbon
SIG provided expertise on carbon sequestration in Austrian state forests and was responsible for the conceptual design of the indicators…Learn More
Small-scale timberland evaluation tool development
SIG developed a timberland valuation assessment tool that allows for cost-effective investment analysis for small timberland tracts while still providing…Learn More
Modeling economic and carbon consequences of a shift to wood-based energy in a rural ‘cluster’; a network analysis in southeast Alaska
Southeast Alaskan forests previously harvested for timber are currently re-growing and require thinning to maintain ecosystem service benefits such as…Learn More
Using FIA forest inventory data to analyze forest carbon using CBM-CFS3
SIG was tasked by EPA to investigate the capacities of the Canadian forest carbon (C) dynamics model CBM-CFS3 to process…Learn More
Economic analysis of a poplar plantation to provide bioenergy feedstocks
In collaboration with the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), SIG assisted in a…Learn More
A global meta-analysis of forest bioenergy greenhouse gas emission accounting studies
The potential greenhouse gas benefits of displacing fossil energy with biofuels are driving policy development in the absence of complete…Learn More
